Bob Beeman News Today

RGI’s new generation can be seen online daily on multiple social media platforms promoting their listings as well as local businesses.

An otherwise routine Morristown Selectboard meeting Monday night was upended with the announcement that the town administrator hired two years ago will resign next month.

Town Administrator Eric Dodge’s decision to step down follows months of contentious debate over the town’s 2024 fiscal year budget, as well as longtime Selectboard Chair Bob Beeman’s resignation just after Town Meeting Day.

Attendance for a special town meeting in Morristown Tuesday evening was so large that the Peoples Academy auditorium couldn’t hold everyone, and attendees overflowed into the school cafeteria.

The Morristown selectboard is a full-bodied board again.

The Morristown selectboard is a full-bodied board again.

Thirty-five years of combined institutional memory is gone from the Morristown Selectboard, either pushed out the door by voters or leaving of its own volition.

Judy Bickford, now the longest tenured board representative as she begins her sixth year, was elected board chair. Don McDowell, a relative veteran now as he enters his second year, was named vice chair.

As some 75% of the state’s 247 cities and towns gather again after a Covid-19 pandemic pause, a growing number are debating whether to switch to ballot voting.

Some 75% of the state’s 247 cities and towns are set to return this week to shoulder-to-shoulder decision-making on local spending, leaders, charter changes and, in one case, $60,000 for bear-proof trash cans.